"for the technology are frequently being observed. Today's technologically savvy population requires convenient solutions to their daily needs. At the forefront of emerging trends in social networking sites is the concept of ""real-time web"" and ""location-based"". Real-time allows users to contribute contents, which is then broadcast as it is being uploaded—the concept is analogous to live radio and television broadcasts. Twitter set the trend for ""real-time"" services, wherein users can broadcast to the world what they are doing, or what is on their minds within a 140-character limit. Facebook followed suit with their ""Live Feed"" where users' activities are streamed"
"company a valuation of around US$31 billion. The paperwork from show of November 7 that among the founders, Williams received a sum of US$2.56 billion and Dorsey received US$1.05 billion, while Costolo's payment was US$345 million. On February 5, 2014, Twitter published its first results as a public company, showing a net loss of $511 million in the fourth quarter of 2013. On January 5, 2016, CEO Jack Dorsey commented on a report that Twitter planned to expand its character limit to 10,000 (private messages already had the longer limit as of July), requiring users to click to see anything"
"Wooxie Wooxie is a social networking website that opened in September 2009. Wooxie is based in Chicago, Illinois and is operated by Jeff Knize. The website allows users the chance to provide their standard updates with 155 character updates, slightly longer than most other microblogging websites. This is a form of microblogging that enables users to connect people with similar interests. Users who access the website can change how their content is displayed as well. The website offers users the chance to Go Micro that will limit their character maximum to 155, while they can choose to Go Macro and"
"path to personal fitness."" In February 2016, Costolo joined Index Ventures as a partner. Dick Costolo Richard William Costolo ( ) (born September 10, 1963) was the CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015; he also served as the COO before becoming CEO. He took over as CEO from Evan Williams in October 2010. On June 11, 2015, it was announced that Costolo would step down as CEO on July 1, 2015 and would be replaced by Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey on an interim basis until the Board of Directors could find a replacement. On August 8, 2015,"
"eBay, American Express, reddit, Google, Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, English Wikipedia, Entertainment Consumers Association and Uncyclopedia. Internet entrepreneurs including Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, and Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley signed a letter to Congress expressing their opposition to the legislation. The Tea Party Patriots have argued that the bill ""is bad for consumers"". A letter of opposition was signed by 130 technology entrepreneurs and executives and sent to Congress to express their concern that the law in its present form would ""hurt economic growth and chill innovation in legitimate services that help people create, communicate,"
"Tencent Weibo Tencent Weibo is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website launched by Tencent in April 2010, and is still currently under beta testing. Users may broadcast a message including 140 Chinese characters at most through the web, SMS or smartphone. Tencent Weibo is a social network that connects all users together. It enhances communication between friends. Users can share photos, videos and text with a 140-character limit. The reposting function of Tencent Weibo is similar to Twitter's ""retweeting"", which is replied in @ form. In comparison, Tencent Weibo encourages users to create new topics on their own. With the support"
"new ""close friend"" function enhanced the private social circle; In February 2013, the company reported total revenue of about 66 million us dollars, with more than 500 million registered users and 46.2 million daily active users; In April 2013, Alibaba acquired an 18% stake in Sina Weibo; In August 2013, Sina Weibo Taobao was launched to realize account sharing; In March 2014, sina weibo was renamed ""weibo""; In April 2014, weibo was listed on Nasdaq; In November 2016, the 140-character limit for the release of the publisher was limited to less than 2,000 words; In December 2016, Sina Weibo posted"
"company in Oakland to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the Web. His other projects and ideas at this time included networks of medical devices and a ""frictionless service market"". In July 2000, building on dispatching and inspired in part by LiveJournal and by AOL Instant Messenger, he had the idea for a Web-based realtime status/short message communication service. When he first saw implementations of instant messaging, Dorsey wondered whether the software's user status output could be shared easily among friends. He approached Odeo, which at the time happened to be interested in text messaging. Dorsey and Biz Stone"
"therefore interact with users on any other server in the Fediverse that supports these. Mastodon approximates the microblogging user experience of Twitter, where users post short-form status messages for others to see. On Mastodon, these messages can include up to 500 text-based characters, an extension of Twitter's 280-character limit (originally 140), and posts are called ""toots"" instead of ""tweets"", as is the case on Twitter. Users join a specific Mastodon server, known as an ""instance"", rather than a single website or application. The instances are connected as nodes in a network, and each server can administrate its own rules, account"
"attempt to entice new users, since the number of tweets per day had dropped to about 300 million in January 2016 compared to about 500 million in September 2013 and its peak of 661 million in August 2014. On November 22, 2016, Dorsey was briefly suspended from his own Twitter user account with 3.9 million followers. After restoring the account, Dorsey tweeted the suspension was due to an ""internal mistake"". In February 2017, Dorsey and Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani matched a $530,000 donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) raised by Twitter staffers. Their match brought the total donation"
"to work on all networks. A similar platform called GladlyCast exists for mobile phone users in Singapore and Malaysia. The tweets were set to a largely constrictive 140-character limit for compatibility with SMS messaging, introducing the shorthand notation and slang commonly used in SMS messages. The 140-character limit also increased the usage of URL shortening services such as bit.ly, goo.gl, tinyurl.com, tr.im, and other content-hosting services such as TwitPic, memozu.com and NotePub to accommodate multimedia content and text longer than 140 characters. Since June 2011, Twitter has used its own t.co domain for automatic shortening of all URLs posted on"
"Skyhorse Publishing in the US in October 2007 and again in February 2011. She later adapted it into a screenplay for film producer Lloyd Levin. ""The Twitter Diaries: 2 Cities, 1 Friendship, 140 Characters,"" a fiction e-book that Lloyd Webber co-wrote with Georgie Thompson, debuted on 21 May 2012. It is written as a conversation on Twitter, using the 140-character limitation. The book was inspired by Thompson and Lloyd Webber meeting at a party hosted by Piers Morgan and developing a friendship over Twitter. It was later released in paperback form in the UK and North America. In June 2016"
"married Gabrielle Borden Finley. Josh Abramson Josh Abramson (born 1981) is an American entrepreneur, and co-founder of the comedy website CollegeHumor. He is one of the principal owners and founders of Connected Ventures, whose properties include Vimeo and BustedTees, and the owner and CEO of the crowdsourced T-shirt design company TeePublic. Abramson grew up in Timonium, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. He and fellow CollegeHumor co-founder Ricky Van Veen were friends since the sixth grade and attended Dulaney High School together. Abramson and Van Veen co-founded CollegeHumor in 1999 when they were both freshmen in college, Abramson at the University"
"its site, making other link shorteners unnecessary for staying within Twitter's 140 character limit. In 2016, Twitter announced that media such as photos, videos, and the person's handle, would not count against the already constrictive 140 character limit. A user photo post used to count for a large chunk of a Tweet, about 24 characters. Attachments and links would also no longer be part of the character limit. In 2017, Twitter increased to 280-character limit tweets. Under the new limit, glyphs are counted as a variable number of characters, depending upon the script they are from: most European letters and"
"CEO and President, and youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. On May 19, 2013, the ""Wall Street Journal"" reported that Yahoo's board had approved an all-cash deal to purchase the six-year-old blogging website Tumblr. The announcement reportedly signifies a changing trend in the technology industry, as large corporations like Yahoo, Facebook, and Google acquire start-up Internet companies that generate low amounts of revenue as a way in which to connect with sizeable, fast-growing online communities. The ""Wall Street Journal"" stated that the purchase of Tumblr would satisfy the company's need for ""a thriving social-networking and communications hub."" Yahoo will"
"to its IPO. For the fiscal year 2017, Square reported losses of US$63 million, with an annual revenue of US$2.214 billion, an increase of 29.6% over the previous fiscal cycle. Square's shares traded at over $75 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at US$32 billion in November 2018. Square was co-founded by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey. Dorsey also serves as chief executive officer and Sarah Friar serves as chief financial officer. Square's office is in San Francisco. The firm has more than 2,000 employees. Square has been available in the United States since 2010 and the company launched"
"office, which was then responsible for telephones too. After retiring from that career, he started a consultancy advising on technology patents. In 2009 he lived in Bonn. Friedhelm Hillebrand Friedhelm Hillebrand is a German engineer who has been influential in setting mobile telecommunications standards. As chairman of the non-voice services committee for the Global System for Mobile Communications standard in 1985, he conducted experiments to determine the length needed for text messages and found that 160 characters was sufficient. This subsequently became the basis for the 140 character limit now used by Twitter. He was born in Warstein in 1940,"
"Dick Costolo Richard William Costolo ( ) (born September 10, 1963) was the CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015; he also served as the COO before becoming CEO. He took over as CEO from Evan Williams in October 2010. On June 11, 2015, it was announced that Costolo would step down as CEO on July 1, 2015 and would be replaced by Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey on an interim basis until the Board of Directors could find a replacement. On August 8, 2015, ""The New York Times"" reported that Costolo would be leaving Twitter's Board of Directors"
"Plurk Plurk () is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as plurks) through short messages or links, which can be up to 360 text characters in length (as of December 28, 2016, immediately prior to which the limit was 210, which was increased from the original limit of 140). Updates are then shown on the user's home page using a timeline, which lists all the updates received in chronological order, and delivered to other users who have chosen to receive them. A unique feature of its timeline is horizontal scrolling which"
"open only to those invited by an existing member. Whereas Facebook soon opened its membership to everyone, A Small World remained exclusive. Wachtmeister, over the course of his travels, identified an existing niche community of people with similar lifestyles and tastes. He wanted to provide them with a platform to network and share information. In May 2006, Harvey Weinstein's The Weinstein Company acquired the majority share, joining a team of investors that included former AOL Time Warner COO Robert W. Pittman, film director Renny Harlin, and entrepreneur Alexander Von Furstenberg. At the time, A Small World had approximately 130,000 members."
"Josh Abramson Josh Abramson (born 1981) is an American entrepreneur, and co-founder of the comedy website CollegeHumor. He is one of the principal owners and founders of Connected Ventures, whose properties include Vimeo and BustedTees, and the owner and CEO of the crowdsourced T-shirt design company TeePublic. Abramson grew up in Timonium, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. He and fellow CollegeHumor co-founder Ricky Van Veen were friends since the sixth grade and attended Dulaney High School together. Abramson and Van Veen co-founded CollegeHumor in 1999 when they were both freshmen in college, Abramson at the University of Richmond and Van"
"The school does not have any professors, does not issue any diploma or degree, and is open 24/7. The training is inspired by new modern ways to teach which include peer-to-peer pedagogy and project-based learning. The School has been endorsed by many high-profile people in Silicon Valley including Evan Spiegel the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., Keyvon Beykpour the co-founder and CEO of Periscope, Stewart Butterfield the co-founder and CEO of Slack, Brian Chesky the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, Tony Fadell the founder and CEO of Nest Labs, Jack Dorsey the co-Founder and CEO of Twitter, Paul Graham,"
"the vein of CollegeHumor. The site was created in December 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen, with help from web developer Jakob Lodwick. Abramson and Van Veen were high school friends from Baltimore, Maryland. The site traffic reaches approximately 30,000 monthly American users, according to Quantcast direct measurement. Abramson said in an interview, ""[We wanted to start] an advertisement-based business because at the time the advertising market was pretty hot and we’d seen other people develop Web sites that were popular making a lot of money."" Their aim was to create a humor site that would appeal to"
"some offer additional features. People posting on Twitter often made extensive use of shortened URLs to keep their tweets within the service-imposed 140 character limit. Twitter used TinyURL until 2009, before switching to bit.ly. Now Twitter uses its own t.co domain for this purpose. Though Twitter has extended its limit to 280 characters, it automatically shortens links longer than 31 characters using its t.co domain. The TinyURL method of allocating shorter web addresses has inspired an action known as TinyURL-whacking. Random letters and numbers can be placed after the first forward slash in an attempt to hit interesting sites without"
"June 2017, Twitter revamped its dashboard to improve the new user experience. As chief executive officer, Dorsey saw the startup through two rounds of capital funding by the venture capitalists who backed the company. On October 16, 2008, Williams took over the role of CEO, and Dorsey became chairman of the board. On October 4, 2010, Williams announced that he was stepping down as CEO. Dick Costolo, formerly Twitter's chief operating officer, became CEO. On October 4, 2010, Williams made an announcement saying that he will stay with the company and ""be completely focused on product strategy"". According to ""The"
"post up to 1,440 characters in their update. Unlike other social websites, Wooxie prevents users from creating spam based accounts so far as possible. This is done through the restrictions in place on categories. Unlike other social networking websites, Wooxie does limit users on the number of categories that they can post in. This reduces the number of spam accounts that is in place on this website. In addition to the social media that it provides, Wooxie is a tool for online business promotion and provides several tools to assist in this purpose. The social media website doubles as an"
"New York Times"", ""Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Costolo forged a close relationship"" when Williams was away. According to ""PC Magazine"", Williams was ""no longer involved in the day-to-day goings on at the company"". He was focused on developing a new startup, and became a member of Twitter's board of directors, and promised to ""help in any way I can"". In 2011, Stone was still with Twitter but was working with AOL as an ""advisor on volunteer efforts and philanthropy"". In January 2014 Stone announced the release of Jelly, a 'social Q&A network for mobile'. Dorsey rejoined Twitter in March 2011,"
"the biotechnology firm Genentech and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's startup Square his first two major clients. In 2010, Lisagor founded the Los Angeles-based video advertising company Sandwich Video. The firm specializes in helping startups and apps get noticed with short, entertaining, informative videos, and has earned notice for frequently accepting a combination of cash, equity and revenue sharing from a client in lieu of full payment. Their videos are typically one-and-a-half to two minutes long. They also work with larger clients and ad agencies, and produce television commercials in addition to online video ads. Sandwich's clients include Square, Airbnb, Warby"
"the NYC headquarters. Within each team are opportunities for executive positions, like a contributing editor, social outreach specialist, recruitment director, and more, all on a voluntary basis. Writers have the opportunity to receive compensation for their articles based on the amount of page views a contributor has. Odyssey was co-founded by Evan Burns and Adrian France, two students from Indiana University, in 2014 under the Odyssey Media Group, Inc. The platform's users consist mostly of university and college students in the age range of 18-28, and its viewers mostly come from each individual user's social media networks, such as Facebook"
"beyond 140 characters. He said while Twitter would ""never lose that feeling"" of speed, users could do more with the text. In September 2016, Twitter shares rose 20% after a report that it had received takeover approaches. Potential buyers were Alphabet (parent company of Google), Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Verizon, and The Walt Disney Company. Twitter's board of directors were open to a deal, which could have come by the end of 2016. However, no deal was made, with reports in October stating that all the potential buyers dropped out partly due to concerns over abuse and harassment on the service. In"
"200 million people on Facebook that list themselves as single, so clearly there's something to do here"". In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal, the service is being developed with privacy features, and friends will be unable to view one's dating profile. Facebook Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The founders initially limited the website's membership to"
"Communications, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Paramount, and Reebok's Speedwick apparel brand. On March 19, 2013, the company launched a SaaS platform led by Jack Ukropina called Mogreet Express, enabling small and medium-sized businesses to use SMS and MMS in their marketing mix. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Venice (metro Los Angeles), California. Investors include Ascend Ventures, Black Diamond Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Frontier, and Spyglass Ventures. Mogreet Mogreet is a startup company that has developed a platform that delivers short videos, photos, audio, extended and Hispanic character text to consumers' mobile phones using SMS or MMS"
"and Twitter. In 2009, Evan Burns and Adrian France co-founded Odyssey Media Group, Inc. It started as a print publication, called The Odyssey, at Indiana University with a focus on Greek life and campus issues not generally covered by the university’s official news publication. After initial success at their own university, Odyssey remained a print publication, but it expanded its reach to include chapters at other universities, including San Diego State University, the University of South Carolina, the University of Arkansas and the University of Alabama. In 2014, Odyssey was launched as an online publication and platform. In 2015 and"